The harassment began in September 2017 after the release of a “hugely damning” UN Commission of Inquiry report on human rights abuses in Burundi, and Chantal Mutamuriza was "singled out as being involved."
The United Nations Has a Human Rights Issue
The international organization should not be allowing authoritarian regimes to sit in any leadership positions related to human rights abuses.
The United Nations has once again made a mockery of its human rights advocacy. Last month, it announced plans to elect Syria to a top position in a committee tasked to uphold human rights. It’s a laughable move, and one that illustrates the UN’s problem with sticking to its values.
The committee, called the Special Committee on Decolonization, is meant to oppose “subjugation, domination, and exploitation” of other people. And on the same day, the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic condemned the Assad regime, reporting on “the most heinous of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law perpetrated against the civilian population in Syria since March 2011.” The report declared the dictatorial regime’s actions likely constitute “crimes against
World powers bear responsibility for ignoring crimes against humanity that may still be perpetrated by authorities in North Korea amid a focus on its nuclear programme, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Wednesday.
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96th session of the Executive Council of the OPCW
Statement by Ms Joanna Roper, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
From:
9 March 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Ambassador Vásquez Gómez, Mr Chair, the United Kingdom would like to underline again our thanks to you and the Director-General, for enabling the Executive Council to convene in a safe way during the on-going pandemic.
Mr Chair,
Next week will mark the tenth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria. The United Kingdom deplores the use of chemical weapons which have been a devastating feature of the Syrian conflict. The recent UN Commission of Inquiry report documented 38 separate instances of the use of chemical weapons, of which 32 met its standard of proof for attribution to the Syrian regime. The UK calls on all States Parties to condemn the appalling chemical weapons attacks which have taken place in Syria.